The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was a time when millions of Africans were taken from their homes to come and work in the Americas as slaves. The Spaniards needed someone to come and work in their plantations and mine their gold and silver, so they went to Africa to get laborers. Africans were taken from their homes and made slaves, slaves were considered property, and America and Africa both suffered in a way. The slave trade is considered one of the worst crimes against humanity. All of this, just
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Racism v. Slavery Although Western European explorers treated Africans as chattel during the African slave trade, racism did not play a component in who were considered slaves. Racism did not create slavery, slavery created racism. Africans being used as chattel was a result of competition between the Americas and East Asia. The Europeans simply did not want Asia to have superiority over them. Africans were sold into two distinct slave trades, the Atlantic slave trade and the trans-Saharan slave
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The legacy of colonialism in the Caribbean at the hands of western powers particularly the English, French, Spanish, United States, and Dutch is overall negative due to the numerous African slaves brought to work on exploitative plantations who were even after emancipation and independence very poor and continued to suffer the consequences of exploitative colonialism brought by westerners. However, one of the few positives brought on by western colonialism in Caribbean is the introduction and subsequent
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The movie opens up with the arrival of foreign vacationers to the island. This demonstrates a stark comparison to the understanding of the legacy of the country’s colonial history, and its present economic struggles. As the film progresses we get the first impression of the IMF when we see the former Prime Minister Michael Manley forced to sign Jamaica’s first loan agreement with the IMF in 1977 due to lack of viable alternatives which turns out to be a global pattern common throughout the Third
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If you’re wondering what to eat in Jamaica, I recently had the daunting task of trying to eat as much traditional Jamaican food as I could in five days. It may be аn island, but Jamaica is a рlасе whеrе fоr thе phrase “mеlting pot” wаѕ ѕurеlу invеntеd, bоth fоr its реорlе аnd fоr itѕ food. Thiѕ Cаribbеаn iѕlаnd nаtiоn hаѕ hоѕtеd wave аftеr wave of colonisers аnd immigrants – frоm the Sраniѕh, Britiѕh, Afriсаn, Indiаn аnd Chinеѕе, аnd thеу hаvе аll brought their оwn foods аnd сulturеѕ tо thе iѕlаnd
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Haiti is located in the West Indies and is made up by the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. This country is about the size of the state Maryland in the U.S. Haiti is two-thirds mountainous, with the rest of the country made up of countless valleys, widespread plateaus, and small plains. Agriculture is the prime economic activity in Haiti. Subsistence crops include cassava, rice, sugarcane, sorghum, yams, corn, and plantains. Most Haitians
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade took place in the Atlantic Ocean through the 15th – 19th century between America, Europe and Africa. The Trade blossomed due to the expansion of sugar production, causing a higher demand for Africans. The expansion of sugar production drove The Transatlantic Trade to prosper. But the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not begin the capturing of Africans, European were capturing Africans long before the slave traffic developed. The Portuguese were the first European that explored
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The African slaves’ journey from their homeland to an unfamiliar new world was not a pleasant voyage. African captives that had been captured by slave seekers were thrust into severe mental and physical torture as soon as they were removed from their homes. The violence and destruction only continued once captives were placed on a slave ship. As prisoners on these ships, the African hostages were witness to the forcible segregation, assaults, and confinement so notorious of the Middle Passage. European
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In 1991, Haiti faced a coup by military authorities against its democratically elected President Aristide. The election had been supported by the United Nations to testify of its smooth functioning (United Nations, n.d.). This military coup led to three years of economic collapse and repressions perpetrated by the new regime. The importance of the number of migrants who were arriving in the United States persuaded the United Nations to intervene in Haiti through a peacekeeping mission in 1994 (Vree
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In Brazil from 1917 to 1945 the country went under a major political reform. This reform was known as the “whitening”. It was the process of converting people of African and mixed descents; physically, culturally, and socially in habits, and in health. This all began in the public school systems that promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and people of color or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention. One way of physically making Brazil white was to put restrictions
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